Quotes about Truth

Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God's revealed truth is the only faith there is.

It is possible to know all about doctrine and still not know Jesus.

Disaster occurs in your life when you lack the mental composure that comes from establishing yourself on the eternal truth that God is holy love.

The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience.

We must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.

Determinedly take no one seriously but God, and the first person you find you have to leave severely alone as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself.

Which of my convictions have more to do with my own personal preferences than with God's revelation?

Until we can come face-to-face with the deepest, darkest fact of life without damaging our view of God's character, we do not yet know Him.

You can never be the same after the unveiling of a truth. That moment marks you as one who either continues on with even more devotion as a disciple of Jesus Christ, or as one who turns to go back as a deserter.

Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.

My questions arise whenever I cease to obey. When I do obey God, problems come, not between me and God, but as a means to keep my mind examining with amazement the revealed truth of God. But any problem that comes between God and myself is the result of disobedience. Any problem that comes while I obey God (and there will be many) increases my overjoyed delight, because I know that my Father knows and cares, and I can watch and anticipate how He will unravel my problems.

Beware of building your faith on experience, or your life will not ring true and will only sound the note of a critical spirit.